Margaret Wigham
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Margaret Viola Wigham (February 3, 1904 – April 17, 1972) was a composer, music educator and pianist, born in Minnesota.{{Cite web |title=Register |url-access=subscription |url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7316&h=2843003&queryId=de43e572feb10525aa43de0ee562ab11&usePUB=true&_phsrc=eHE5&_phstart=successSource&requr=2555265023246336&ur=0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=2843003 |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=www.ancestry.com}} She was nationally known as a mid-century composer of student piano pieces.{{Cite book|last=Laudon|first=Robert T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jftRpGl9L78C&q=margaret+wigham+composer|title=Minnesota Music Teachers Association: The Profession & the Community, 1901-2000|date=2000|publisher=The Association|isbn=978-0-9679777-0-6|language=en}} Her pieces often had an educational focus such as chromaticism, counterpoint, learning to play in different keys, or using each hand independently.{{Cite book|last=Presser|first=Theodore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WVTAAAAYAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=Etude: The Music Magazine|date=1956|publisher=T. Presser Company|language=en}} Her works were published by Oliver Ditson Co., Willis Music, Harold Flammer Inc, Belwin Inc, and R. D. Row.{{Cite book|last=Hinson|first=Maurice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHms5WKUUC0C&dq=margaret+wigham+composer&pg=PA206|title=Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide|date=2001-07-09|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-11306-1|language=en}} They were also published in Braille and made available through the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.{{Cite web|title=Piano Scores, Braille: Composers Rachmaninoff through Zuschneid|url=https://www.loc.gov/nls/braille-audio-reading-materials/music-materials/piano-scores-braille/braille-composers-rachmaninoff-zuschneid/|access-date=2020-08-18|website=National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) {{!}} Library of Congress}}
Her compositions include:
Orchestra
Piano
- Bachette
- By the Little Mill{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiohAQAAIAAJ&dq=margaret+wigham+composer&pg=PA249|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=1952|language=en}}
- Carefree{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bakJAQAAMAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=Clavier: A Magazine for Pianists & Organists|date=1966|publisher=Instrumentalist Company|language=en}}
- Fun with a Hoop
- Gay Caprice{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MzjAAAAMAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=Musart|date=1967|publisher=The Association|language=en}}
- Happitat{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDFLAAAAYAAJ&q=margaret+wigham+composer|title=The Piano Quarterly|date=1965|publisher=Piano Quarterly, Incorporated|language=en}}
- Hop Along My Little Froggie{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBZBAQAAIAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries|date=1953|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}
- In the Chapel
- Introduction and Sonatina
- Just Before Dawn
- Little Prelude{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFghAQAAIAAJ|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=1951|language=en}}
- Merrily Over the Waves We Go
- Musical Moods in All Keys{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRg9AQAAIAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=The American Music Teacher|date=1969|publisher=Music Teachers' National Association|language=en}}
- Musical Playmates
- Now It's Time to Run and Play
- O So Happy
- Old Cowboy Trail{{Cite journal|date=1950|title=Front Matter|journal=Bulletin of the Music Teachers National Association|volume=15|issue=1|jstor=43528428|issn=2380-9051}}
- On Swan Lake
- Puppet Mischief{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UTFLAAAAYAAJ&q=margaret+wigham|title=Piano Quarterly Newsletter|date=1953|publisher=Piano Teachers Information Service|language=en}}
- Rhapsody{{Cite web|title=Wigham, Margaret (composer) (page 1 of 1)|url=https://www.prestomusic.com/sheet-music/composers/76437/browse|access-date=2020-08-18|website=Presto Sheet Music|language=en}}
- Scampering Whole Steps
- Scherzino
Vocal
- “I Wonder Where the Robins Go?” (words by Margaret Wigham and Wilma Wigham)
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Category:20th-century American women composers
Category:20th-century American women pianists